With the growing number of PRO’s that contribute to HIHR, a larger organization committee for future HIHR events became desirable. To this extend a core group has been set up to address the long-term sustainability of our initiative, as well as financing options and other strategic issues.

The following people have currently accepted a seat in the core group:

• Duko Drijfhout, Erasmus MC
• Daisy Flamez, University Ghent
• Joris Heus, Amsterdam UMC
• Annick Houbrechts, Interface Entreprises, University of Liège
• Clemens Ostrowicz, University of Luxembourg – LCSB – chair
• Bram Perdu, KU Leuven Research & Development
• Esther Rodijk, TTT MedTech and UTwente
• Marcos Casado, INKEF Capital
• Claar-els van Delft, Riverside Project Management

Past core group members are:

• Paul Van Dun, KU Leuven Research & Development
• Frank van de Ven, Technical University Eindhoven
• Koen Verhoef, Netherlands Cancer Institute – co founder
• Dominic De Groote, University Ghent – co founder
• Oscar Schoots, Incubator Utrecht
• Filip Goossens, PMV
• Roel Bulthuis, INKEF Capital

Projects will be pre-selected by a relevant advisory committee to assure quality and to maximise impact. The selection committee assesses the nominated spin-offs, classifies the nominations into pitches and reviews the presentation of selected Spin-offs.

As per January 2024 the selection committee consists of the following members:

• Daisy Flamez, University of Ghent
• Duko Drijfhout, Erasmus MC
• Clemens Ostrowicz, University Luxembourg – (LCSB)
• Bram Perdu, KU Leuven Research & Development  – chair selection cie
• Esther Rodijk, TTT MedTech
• Veronique Vermeeren, University ofHasselt
• Marcos Casado, INKEF Capital
• Paul Soons
• Niels Jansen, University of Twente

Past members

• Rudi Cuyvers, KU Leuven Research & Development Spin-off and Innovation
• Louise Hoppel, Radboud UMC
• Shobhit Dhawan, Oncode Oncology Bridge Fund
• Aard Groen, University of Groningen Centre of Entrepreneurship
• Annick Houbrechts, Interface Entreprises, University of Liège
• Jasper Keyman, Erasmus MC (University of Rotterdam)
• Thijs van den Munckhof, UNIIQ / University of Leiden
• Griet VanPoucke, VIB
• Henri Theunissen, Brightlands (University of Maastricht)

The event organisation, general management and support of the core group and selection committee is taken care of by Claar-els van Delft, Riverside Project Management, with support of Willem Dhooge, life science professional and former COO of Flanders Bio and Carla van Heck, business developer at Heck Innovations.

For any inquiries on HIHR please contact claar-els@hihr.eu or by mobile phone +31 6 2848 0549.